Slow down Madge!
UPDATE: As Brandon of ThecounT.com reported, It was on Thursday a crane collapse, killing, 53 year-old Charles Criscenzo and and injuring 35 others. Now another man dies from those injuries. Charles Prow, 23.
The accident occurred while over 50 people were employed to set up Madonna’s concert staging in France. 4 cranes are needed to simultaneously lift the roof. This time the roof became unstable, knocking over a crane, the entire roof came tumbling down inside the 60,000 seat Velodrome in France.
A total of 8 people are still seriously injured, 30 plus suffering lesser injuries and shock.
Madonna, 50, was performing a show in Udine, Italy, when she caught wind of the accident, making the following on-stage speech, “Before I continue the show, I just wanted to take a moment to acknowledge and pay tribute to two people who lost their lives today,” she told fans, holding back tears. “I don’t know if you have heard. When they were building my show in Marseilles where we’re playing next — we don’t know why, but one of the cranes fell, a piece of the stage fell down. Two men lost their lives. It’s a great tragedy to me. … I feel so devastated to be in any way associated with anyone’s suffering. … Let’s all just take a moment to say a prayer for Charles Criscenzo and for Charlie Prow, two men who lost their lives today. Our hearts go out to their families, to their loved ones. Please, let’s all just take a moment to appreciate life in general. Let’s give it up for the two Charlies!”
A source familiar with the kind of huge staging commonly used by today’s, money-hungry, touring mega-acts, said, “There is two sets of staging, one for the current concert and the one being set up at the next venue. The workers employed to set up the following concert are under great pressure to get the job done, many times with not enough hours in the day to complete that job.”
We live in the digital age of music; most of us stopped buying over-priced CDs years ago. Musical acts that once raked in a fortune by charging fans up-to 100 times the actual manufacturing cost of a compact disk, now must tour to support their lavish life styles.
Our source said of the rapid-fire paced touring, “This daisy-chain style of concert tour is a recipe for disaster, too much pressure, too much staging, too little time.”
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